Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Big word I know but it’s a word that seems to adequately describe today’s republican party. I am sure I am not the only one to wonder about the inconsistence positions that “the right” take. Let’s go ahead to list them.

• Free Speech
  • Republican Governors
    • Banning books.
    • Bans on teaching subjects that they dislike.
    • Bans on right to peaceably assemble.
• Pro-Life (republican anti-abortion stance,
  • Pro Capital Punishment (Death Penalty)
  • Pro-Gun
    • No gun regulations only “thoughts and prayers”.
  • Pro-War
    • Always I favor of expanding Military Funding
  • Against Expanded Health Care
  • Fighting to keep pharmaceutical prices high.
    • Against the $35 monthly cap on insulin

The list could go on and on and it is mind boggling that some how hardly anyone points out the hypocrisy. The other point in my bewilderment is that they cry fowl over nearly every measure put forward to fix an issue but they never seem to propose a solution and if when they do it is a non-fix or actually exasperates the problem.

How is it that a large segment of our population keeps putting these disruptors in positions of power? I know over years of partisan shenanigans the republicans have redrawn maps that insure that even with a majority they can still stay in power. The state of Wisconsin in a prime example the state tend to vote 50/50 on most things but somehow the Republicans hold a super majority in state government. That super majority even stripped the Governor, who is a democrat, of nearly all his elected authority so that they could push threw their agenda. The state even has a majority supreme court that continues to strip rights away from its citizens. Thankfully that may be changing because the public gets to vote on judges and they have a election coming up that could change the complexion of the court to represent the people in a more just and positive direction.

I know I am rambling, but my bewilderment in the juxtaposition of touted republican talking points and their actual actions that are in opposition to those “beliefs” have been a constant nightmare for the sane public and I hope I am not the only one who thinks that way.